"""
pyNEAT
Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Brian Greer

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
"""

import copy
import cPickle

# cPickle appears to be much faster in my experiments than copy.deepcopy
# object copying centralized here for easy changes

def objectCopy(obj):
   if obj is None:
      return obj
   else:
      #return copy.deepcopy(obj)
      return cPickle.loads(cPickle.dumps(obj))
